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- English Word Athleticism Definition The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.
- English Word Athletics Definition The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
- English Word Athletism Definition The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
- English Word Athwart Definition Across; from side to side of.
- English Word Athwart Definition Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.
- English Word Athwart Definition Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.
- English Word Athwart Definition Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.
- English Word Atilt Definition In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust.
- English Word Atilt Definition In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.]
- English Word Atimy Definition Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights.
- English Word Atlanta Definition A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
- English Word Atlantal Definition Relating to the atlas.
- English Word Atlantal Definition Anterior; cephalic.
- English Word Atlantean Definition Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.
- English Word Atlantean Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong.
- English Word Atlantes Definition Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.
- English Word Atlantic Definition Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.
- English Word Atlantic Definition Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.
- English Word Atlantic Definition Descended from Atlas.
- English Word Atlantides Definition The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.
- English Word Atlas Definition One who sustains a great burden.
- English Word Atlas Definition The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.
- English Word Atlas Definition A collection of maps in a volume
- English Word Atlas Definition A volume of plates illustrating any subject.
- English Word Atlas Definition A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.
- English Word Atlas Definition A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.
- English Word Atlas Definition A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
- English Word Atlas Definition A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.
- English Word Atlases Definition of Atlas
- English Word Atmidometer Definition An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow.